HRANT MARGARIAN: OUR PEOPLE WON’T ALLOW ANYBODY TO RETURN LIBERATED TERRITORIES

YEREVAN, JUNE 16, NOYAN TAPAN. “I don’t think that there can be people
in Armenia who would agree to return the liberated territories. Our
people paid a very high price for Nagorno Karabakh’s liberation and
won’t allow anybody to return these territories,” Hrant Margarian,
representative of the ARF Dashnaktsutiun Bureau, declared during
the June 16 meeting at the National Press Club. According to the
politician, today international forces exert pressure on Azerbaijan
for the latter to agree to joining of Nagorno Karabakh and Lachin to
Armenia. An analogous pressure is exerted on Armenia for it to make
a decision about returning the liberated territories. Meanwhile,
Hrant Margarian emphasized, any decision should be submitted to
people’s judgement. He reminded that NKR hasn’t announced about its
power over these territories by now. As regards possible realization
of the decision by the above-mentioned plan, H.Margarian declared:
“I will greet it if Azerbaijan announces about his consent to join
NKR and Lachin to Armenia. This will be half of our success, after
which I will wait for realization of another part of our success,
problem of territories.” Hrant Margarian expressed bewilderment in
connection with the fact that administrative-territorial issue can
be the basis of the Nagorno Karabakh problem’s settlement. In his
opinion, the historic aspect, as well as issue of Nagorno Karabakh’s
security should be the basis of the settlement.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress